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Gilbert N. Lewis

1875 - 1946

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Gilbert Newton Lewis (October 23 or October 25, 1875 – March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Lewis was best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding. Lewis successfully contributed to chemical thermodynamics, photochemistry, and isotope separation, and is also known for his concept of acids and bases. Lewis also researched on relativity and quantum physics, and in 1926 he coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy.G. N. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilbert N. Lewis has received more than 636,093 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Gilbert N. Lewis is the 78th most popular chemist (down from 74th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from United States (up from 579th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Chemist.

Gilbert N. Lewis is most famous for his work on the electron-pair theory of chemical bonding.

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  • 59

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  • 6.91

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  • 3.82

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Over the past year Gilbert N. Lewis has had the most page views in the with 126,671 views, followed by English (72,024), and Portuguese (9,280). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (167.95%), Ido (104.67%), and Malagasy (94.10%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 78 out of 602. Before him are Irving Langmuir, Hermann Staudinger, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Dorothy Hodgkin, and George de Hevesy. After him are Theodore William Richards, James B. Sumner, Hans Adolf Krebs, Odd Hassel, William Crookes, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 16. Before him are Gerd von Rundstedt, Jeanne Calment, Albert I of Belgium, Aleister Crowley, Mikhail Kalinin, and Vallabhbhai Patel. After him are Henry Hallett Dale, John Buchan, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Marie of Romania, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Giovanni Gentile. Among people deceased in 1946, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 27. Before him are John Logie Baird, Draža Mihailović, Manuel de Falla, Paul Langevin, Ferenc Szálasi, and Ananda Mahidol. After him are Helene Schjerfbeck, Andrey Vlasov, László Moholy-Nagy, Wilhelm Marx, Amon Göth, and Kurt Daluege.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 537 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Clancy (1947), Alvin Toffler (1928), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Tennessee Williams (1911), Ferid Murad (1936), and Anthony Perkins (1932). After him are Martin Cooper (1928), Jeff Bridges (1949), Tobin Bell (1942), Janet Leigh (1927), Ernest Borgnine (1917), and Theodore William Richards (1868).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Gilbert N. Lewis ranks 8. Before him are Edwin McMillan (1907), John Howard Northrop (1891), John Stith Pemberton (1831), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Melvin Calvin (1911), and Irving Langmuir (1881). After him are Theodore William Richards (1868), James B. Sumner (1887), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Stanford Moore (1913), and Paul Berg (1926).

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